>I understand your point, that it is invalid to have an unescaped
>ampersand as an attribute value in xml.
>>But I'm stuck now. Looking for some ideas. I am using jdom to
>build a html page. So currently, there is no process that will
>unescape the ampersands.
>
JDOM is not an HTML API. You can use it build XHTML, but not classic
HTML. I suggest you use an HTML API instead if you cannot use XHTML.
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